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"Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" - Italy (original title) "The Good, the Ugly, the Bad" - USA (literal English title) "The Man with No Name 3: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" - International (English title)(alternative title)See more »

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Continuity: Angel Eyes' grip on his spoon changes from overhand to underhand back to overhand while he chats with the rat.See more »

Quotes:

[first lines] Stevens:You're... from Baker? [Angel Eyes is silent, eating a bowl of stew and staring at him] Stevens:Tell Baker that I told him all that I know already and I want to live in peace, understand? That it's no use to go on tormenting me! I know nothing at all about that case of coins. [Angel Eyes stops eating and looks interested] Stevens:Now that gold has disappeared, but if he'd listened we could have avoided this altogether. I went to the Army court; there were no witnesses. They couldn't uncover any more. I can't tell Baker what happened to the money. Go back and tell him that!See more »

A sprawling Western epic that follows the adventures of three gunfighters
looking for $200,000 in stolen gold, Sergio Leone's `The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly' is a masterpiece, one that continues to get better and better with
each viewing. In a way, it's a morality play, weighing the consequences of
good and evil, but it does so in a realistic manner. Sometimes, crime does
pay, at least in the short term, and sometimes good does go unrewarded.
This film probably signaled the death knell of the traditional John Wayne
`White Hat/Black Hat' Western.

The three main characters make the film. Lee Van Cleef (`The Bad') is evil
personified. Totally ruthless, he'll do whatever it takes to get what he
wants. Clint Eastwood (`The Good') is the Man With No Name, not really
`good' in a traditional sense . . . but he has a certain sense of honor and
tries to do the right thing. (Watch the scene when he gives a dying
Confederate soldier a puff of his cigar - powerful, and it sums up
everything that the Man With No Name is all about, without saying a single
word.) Eli Wallach (`The Ugly') is Tuco, and he's easily the most complex -
if not the best - character in the film. All impulse and rage, Tuco spins
wildly throughout the movie, stealing, lying, pretending to be Clint
Eastwood's best friend in one scene, trying to kill him in another - Tuco
truly represents `the ugly' side of people.

The movie is long, but there's not a wasted scene in the film. Each one
slowly lets the film unfold with a certain style and grace, revealing more
about each character and what's going on. The pacing is incredible, as is
the direction - Sergio Leone manages to build a lot of uncomfortable tension
in the film, keeping the film from ever getting predictable. Any typical
Western cliché that you can possibly think of is either given a unique twist
or utterly destroyed by Leone's masterful storytelling. Of special mention
is Ennio Morricone's score, which is absolutely perfect. Two scenes - one
in a Union prison camp, one in the climatic gunfight in the cemetery at the
end of the film - are amazing on their own, but they become absolutely
astonishing with combined with Morricone's powerful score.

This movie is absolutely brilliant. If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly
urge to do so. Immediately. (And then, go watch `Unforgiven' . . . in a
way, I think that `Unforgiven' is the sequel to `The Good, the Bad, and the
Ugly - it's the story of what eventually happened to the Man With No Name.)
`The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' is easily one of the best Westerns ever
made. A++

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